RJ04 - Describe the inquiry activity you will use for your informal assessment review. Explain what science practice(s) it will teach and how you plan to assess them.
The inquiry based assignment which I will be using to test the students as an informal review is having the students create experiments on both newtons first Law. The students will be receiving a set of guidelines which will be written on the board. These guidelines will be to use the materials on the front lab table to create experiments based on Newtons first law. Newtons first law, "an object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an outside unbalanced force" , will also be written up on the board. Newtons first law is also known as Newtons Law of Inertia, this is something which the students will be reminded of. Materials the students will be able to use are, a stack of quarters, a note card, various coins, tennis ball, string, meter stick, marbles, paper towel rolls, various balls of different weights, cardboard, and different size boxes. The students goal will be to create an experiment that shows Newtons first law, which the students will be able to explain and demonstrate to the class.
This assignment can be used as an informal assessment if I wanted to just give the students a grade on completion of the lab and participation during the creation of the experiment as well as the presentation to the class. This is a great way to get the students thinking outside the box which is crucial for their success on the NECAP testing. Inquiry assignments are a great way to mix up the flow of the classroom as well as show students that learning science can be fun. This assignment obviously could also be used as a formal assessment if the students were told to write out their hypothesis as well as the procedure which they used to create their experiment. This is also a good idea it would give the students a chance to create their own formal lab, which could be given to the students the following year to be completed, so it would be like the students from the year before were the teachers!!
The Science inquiry practices which the students would be utilizing would be communicating and understanding ideas, using tools and techniques, Using evidence to draw conclusions, designing and conducting investivgations, also the students will be questioning and hypothesizing throughout the experiment. All these inquiry practices are going to be utilized throughout the students creating their own experiments, any inquiry assignment is definitely benificial to enhancing the students learning process.
Some sample experiments could be placing a notecard on top of a cup, and then placing a coin on top of the notecard. The student could then pull the notecard out quickly and see that the coin falls directly into the cup. This would show that an object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by a large enough outside force. Another sample experiment would be rolling a marble into a meter stick and it would stop the marble, but if you roll a tennis ball into a meter stick it would move the stick backwards. This is because the tennis ball has a larger mass which gives it a greater inertia. So an object in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an outside force, in this case it was both friction and the meter stick. Also this would show the definition of inertia which is is objects in motion or rest resist a change from the current state that they are in.
The inquiry based assignment which I will be using to test the students as an informal review is having the students create experiments on both newtons first Law. The students will be receiving a set of guidelines which will be written on the board. These guidelines will be to use the materials on the front lab table to create experiments based on Newtons first law. Newtons first law, "an object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an outside unbalanced force" , will also be written up on the board. Newtons first law is also known as Newtons Law of Inertia, this is something which the students will be reminded of. Materials the students will be able to use are, a stack of quarters, a note card, various coins, tennis ball, string, meter stick, marbles, paper towel rolls, various balls of different weights, cardboard, and different size boxes. The students goal will be to create an experiment that shows Newtons first law, which the students will be able to explain and demonstrate to the class.
This assignment can be used as an informal assessment if I wanted to just give the students a grade on completion of the lab and participation during the creation of the experiment as well as the presentation to the class. This is a great way to get the students thinking outside the box which is crucial for their success on the NECAP testing. Inquiry assignments are a great way to mix up the flow of the classroom as well as show students that learning science can be fun. This assignment obviously could also be used as a formal assessment if the students were told to write out their hypothesis as well as the procedure which they used to create their experiment. This is also a good idea it would give the students a chance to create their own formal lab, which could be given to the students the following year to be completed, so it would be like the students from the year before were the teachers!!
The Science inquiry practices which the students would be utilizing would be communicating and understanding ideas, using tools and techniques, Using evidence to draw conclusions, designing and conducting investivgations, also the students will be questioning and hypothesizing throughout the experiment. All these inquiry practices are going to be utilized throughout the students creating their own experiments, any inquiry assignment is definitely benificial to enhancing the students learning process.
Some sample experiments could be placing a notecard on top of a cup, and then placing a coin on top of the notecard. The student could then pull the notecard out quickly and see that the coin falls directly into the cup. This would show that an object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by a large enough outside force. Another sample experiment would be rolling a marble into a meter stick and it would stop the marble, but if you roll a tennis ball into a meter stick it would move the stick backwards. This is because the tennis ball has a larger mass which gives it a greater inertia. So an object in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an outside force, in this case it was both friction and the meter stick. Also this would show the definition of inertia which is is objects in motion or rest resist a change from the current state that they are in.